Genocide

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  • noun. The systematic and widespread extermination or attempted extermination of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group.
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  • noun. The systematic killing of a racial or cultural group.
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  • noun. The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, political opinion, social status, or other particularity.
  • noun. Acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or a significant portion of, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.
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  • noun. systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
    • Word Usage
    "The report was about the horrors in Darfur; the Bush administration using the term genocide to describe what was happening."
    cross-reference
    ethnic cleansing  holocaust  
    Form
    genocidal  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    kill  killing  putting to death  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    Final Solution  holocaust  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    anti-semitism  assassination  assassinations  atrocity  beggary  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    aborticide  atrocity  bloodbath  breach  carnage  
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